In one interview recently, Gower learned that Bernard Hickey was making a lot of money from "The Kaka". Gower's ears pricked up at the news and said he might try his hand at it. My guess is he'd fail miserably. Most broadcast journalists can't write well at all (and when Gower was a print journalist at the Herald 20 years ago he was a reporter, which isn't a good training ground for writing longer, thoughtful pieces that might tempt readers to pay).
TV "stars" easily forget that the medium itself has often made them stars, not so much their own brilliance. Even Paul Holmes found he couldn't get his TVNZ audience to follow him to Prime.
Graham - thanks for the comment and your observations. Life on the TV screen is a pretty fraught one at the best of times. Many presenters and TV "personalities" find themselves the flavour of the month and are perpetually in front of viewer eyeballs until the pixie dust loses its magic (Jacinda Ardern knows all about that!) and the presenter is without a job, making a type of resurrection on some rubbish like "Celebrity Treasure Island" on the like. Sic transit gloria mundi
"There is always Substack" for Paddy Gower...
In one interview recently, Gower learned that Bernard Hickey was making a lot of money from "The Kaka". Gower's ears pricked up at the news and said he might try his hand at it. My guess is he'd fail miserably. Most broadcast journalists can't write well at all (and when Gower was a print journalist at the Herald 20 years ago he was a reporter, which isn't a good training ground for writing longer, thoughtful pieces that might tempt readers to pay).
TV "stars" easily forget that the medium itself has often made them stars, not so much their own brilliance. Even Paul Holmes found he couldn't get his TVNZ audience to follow him to Prime.
Graham - thanks for the comment and your observations. Life on the TV screen is a pretty fraught one at the best of times. Many presenters and TV "personalities" find themselves the flavour of the month and are perpetually in front of viewer eyeballs until the pixie dust loses its magic (Jacinda Ardern knows all about that!) and the presenter is without a job, making a type of resurrection on some rubbish like "Celebrity Treasure Island" on the like. Sic transit gloria mundi
Hilarious!